Supply-valve.



P. O KEPP-ELMAN.

SUPPLY VALVE. APPLICATION FILED vac. 6. 1916 Patented Mar. 27, 1917.

.supply valves and it PAUL O. KEPLPELMAN, 0F READING, PENNSYLVANIA SUPPLY-VALVE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Fatentedhlar. 2'7, 191

Application filed Iiecember 6, 1916. Serial No. 135,239.

a citizen of the United States, residing at Reading, in the county of Berks and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Supply-Valves, of, which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in pertains more particularly to valves of this closets.

flush tanks, the opening and closing of the valve is accomplished through the medium of a float whose movement is responsive to the rise and fall of the water in the tank, and a compound lever carrying the valve.

In actual practice it has been found that the valve seat wears away or becomes-imperfeet through use and it then becomes necessary to disconnect the entire fitting and replace the valvecasing base on which the seat is formed. 7

It is my object in the present instance to avoid this work and its attendant expense, and to this end I have devised a valve casing base member provided with a plurality of tional view of easily removable valve seats, nested one in another so that when one becomes useless it may be easily removed and the next succeeding seat maybe utilized.

In conjunction with these removable valve seats, I have found it necessary to make provision for suitably adjusting the valve, so that it may be readily accommodated to seat on a. lower seat member when one is removed.

The invention is more fully described in the following specification and clearly ,illu's-,

trated in the accompanying drawing, in which I have shown a vertical, central, seca device containing my invention. v

In the said drawing The numeral 1 designates the valve casing and 2 the valve casing base, both of which are of the usual construction.

The base is formed as usual with a valve seat 3 and into thisbase, and seating on the valve seat, I provide a-nest comprlsing two ,or more removable, hollow, screw-threaded plugs,'4, each'of which is formed with a valve seat 5 on its upper surface and each of which is screwed into the one below it as the lowermost one is'screw'ed into the valve caslng base.

The numeral 6- designates the valve,

character as applied to formed with the usual contacting washer or surface 7 at its lower extremity, and adapted to move vertically in the casing, in the usual manner.

To the upper extremity of this valve I form a rod 8 provided with a series of equidistant perforations 9.

The numeral 10 designates lever, which is also of the usual construction, and which carries the lever is operated to actuate the valve 6.

The lower member of this compound lever, 10, is formed with the usual perforation through which it is pivotally attached to the valve plunger, and the numeral 11 designates a removable pivot pin for so attaching it.

lVhen the parts are assembled as shown in the drawing, the rise and fall of the float will cause the valve to seat on the uppermost valve seat 5 and to rise therefrom sufiiciently to allow the flow of water through the casing and out'of the side outlet 13 to the tank.

hen this valve seat becomes useless, the casing is removed from the base and the upper valve seat member is removed from the nest, permitting the next succeeding valve seat member to be utilized.

This removal however will require adjustment of the valve so that it will seat properly when the valve is lowered, and this adjustment is easily and rapidly accomplished by merely removing the pin 11, placing the perforation in the lever member 10 in register with the next upper perforation 9 in the valve plunger and replacing the pin. This will lower the valve a distance equal to the distance between the valve seats 5 of two connected valve seat members and the valve will seat as before.

hen the entire nest of valve seat mem-i bers have been used, and the last one is removed, the valve may seat on the valve seat 3 of the base member as usual, and the valve plunger will then be pivoted to the lever 10 at its uppermost perforation. V] hen this valve seat 3 becomes useless, it will-not even then become necessary to remove it, but a new nest of removable valve seats may be placed-in position, and thereafter the rethe compound the float 15, through the rise and fall of which movable valve seats only may be utilized, but

it is evident that wioh this construction,

the life of the device will not only be materially prolonged, but that leaking valves may be easily and rapidly overcome and this by unskilled hands thus overeoniing delay, annoyance, and expense incidental to am plun'ibers visit.

Having thus fully described my invention, vliai; I. claim and desire to secure by LeuersPaL-en'fi isz-- 1. In a supply valve, the combination of a valve casing, a valvev casing base provided. with a valve seat, a nest oli removable valve seat members, a movable valve provided with a rod said rod liavii a series elf perforations to accommodate Jie'v'alve to ihe respective seats, a compound lever for aeiuating the valve and means seleptively engagealile in said perforz'itions for adjustably attaching the valve rod to the lever.

2.111 a supply valve of tliewliaraeter (leseribed, the combination i i a casing a verlieally inovalile valvev therein, a valve rod formed integrally with the valve, said rod having a sea ies of equi-distant perforations, a compound lever attached to the casing, a lloat earried by said lever, one of the lever members having a perforation adapted for registrat-ioi'i with any one of the perforations in the vaive rod, a removable pin inserted in said regisiering perforations for temporarily attaching the valve red to said lever nieinlier, a easing basen'ienilier formed with a, valve seat, and a plurality of renioval'de vaive seat ineni'lmrs in nested fox-1n, carried by said base lllvlhiliil'i The valve seats being adapted for sueeessive eeaetion with the valve upon iae successive removal of the valve :ats and the siieoessive adjustment of said lever nieiuber relative to said rod in testimony whereof I ai'ii my signature. 

